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So I ask the Government how a consultation will weigh the testimony of a clinician, or indeed a parent who has sat by a dying child as a result of one of these horrific incidents, against the testimony of a parent from another part of the country who has not gone through that experience, or any other consultees. I do not understand what extra information this consultation is going to give; I find it extraordinary to think that a meaningful consultation can be conducted in three months; and I cannot see how the two sides of the debate can be weighed up any more effectively through that mechanism.